He Went to 11
The moment to have celebrated Wayne Garrett seemed to have come and went without my having mentioned it here, so Happy Belated Wayne Garrett/Nigel Tufnel Day everyone.
Garrett is probably the most prominent Mets No. 11 of all time, having lasted eight seasons in New York despite the Mets' constant efforts to find someone else to do his job. Garrett was a Rule 5 pick from the Braves organization who got his chance with the Mets as a rookie platoonmate for veteran third baseman Ed Charles for the 1969 World Champions. Garrett was a fine fielder with a good batting eye who was cursed with "warning track power" -- a flaw that prompted the Mets to try and replace him over and over again, beginning in 1970 (Joe Foy), 1971 (Bob Aspromonte) and 1972 (Jim Fregosi). None of them ever worked out, and by 1973, when Garrett acquired the third-base job by default and went on to have perhaps his best year in the majors, it was already becoming clear that had the Mets only believed in him a litte, they might not have what even today are still considered two of the dumbest trades they'd ever made.
Despite developing few standouts, it seems as though there's always been an No. 11 around. The Mets in fact have had a No. 11 on the field in all but four of their seasons (1967, 1968, 1997 and 2002) and went a stretch between 1991 (Tim Teufel) and 2000 (Jorge Velandia) when the jersey was worn by 13 men, none for more than a single year.
Then again, we may be standing today at the cusp of a lengthy assignment for Ruben Tejada, who tried on the 11 jersey for the first time as a 20-year-old in 2010 and looks increasingly destined to succeed Jose Reyes as the Mets' next shortstop. We'll see though.
Elevenses
Tom Veryzer is my definitive 11. It's the number of infielders limited in their utility by the speed no longer being there --- if it ever was. Often this is accompanied by warning track power. If an eleven has a standout skill, it generally not an athletic one.
Joe McEwing, Jorge Velandia, Tucker Ashford, and late-career Roy McMillan --- these are the men who make eleven special.
Bobby Valentine might have made a good eleven. So might Mike Cubbage. But it is too nondescript to be the number of a future manager, which would sort of be a standout skill.
Speed
"It's the number of infielders limited in their utility by the speed no longer being there --- if it ever was."
Then how do you account for Lenny Randle and Vince Coleman? Whatever shortcomings they had, lack of speed wasn't among them.
Well, geez, Coleman wasn't an
Well, geez, Coleman wasn't an infielder either but we're really not talking in absolutes here. And it needn't detract much from the point.
This is a very clever thing
This is a very clever thing to do a write-up on. I bet there is a history with every number in sports. I bet that there are also those who won't wear certain numbers because of this as well.
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